Exercise is especially important for people who suffer from joint or bone pain. Twenty percent of adults have arthritis - yet on average, regardless of exercise's promise to better your body and ease ailments, they remain less active than people without arthritis. Flexibility, strength training, and cardiovascular activity have been shown to help arthritis sufferers preserve normal joint mobility, improve muscle flexibility and strength, and, in turn, support weak joints while protecting them from further damage.
Exercise helps arthritis patients maintain or reduce weight, therefore alleviating pressure placed on joints; it maintains the strength and health of bone and cartilage tissue and increases endurance and cardiovascular fitness in order to oxygenate the blood and strengthen the heart and lungs. More than 25 million people suffer from the chronic condition of osteoporosis, an often unnecessary and possibly reversible condition if only sufferers would partake in regular physical activity, including strength training, to increase bone density.
Stop the excuses of "oh my back hurts" or "but my joints are stiff today," and move your body. The fact of the matter is that your joints are likely stiff because you are not putting them to use. Your connective tissues and muscles are becoming atrophied and deteriorating as you become more and more sedentary. Exercising will improve your physical state. It will strengthen your muscles, make your connective tissues more malleable, and minimize pains and strains. Unless your doctor recommends otherwise, there is a good chance that exercise will decrease pain, lessen stiffness, and increase mobility.
If you have never exercised a day in your life, and the prospect of starting something new seems too daunting, but you want to be healthier, you are beginning from a great place, because the only place you can go is up! Isn't that a great feeling? As long as you do something to move your body, you have already succeeded! You don't have to jump into an intense daily workout routine immediately. Ease into it. I bet that after a few sessions you will find that you feel so good that you can hardly imagine giving up now! But give yourself more than just the first day; promise me that.
Mounting studies suggest that even moderate physical activity can make major changes to your quality of life. Starting a new program, which requires time, also requires a little reorganizing of your regular routine in order to fit this addition in. Once you figure out how to incorporate exercise into your life, making it another one of your routines - like walking your dog or making pancakes on Sundays - it will be easy to keep up.
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